From the start, I've called this "The Show Nobody Wants." Fans and comics folk won't like it because of the way it wrecks the core components of Batman and constantly shoves bat-stuff in our faces decades before they could realistically work – and ABSOLUTELY DREAD the ever-looming possibility that the show will…

I've actually stopped watching The Walking Dead, because I couldn't stand the constant despair.

Terrible acting AND terribly unbelievable CG. Every time a dino was on screen it looked like an escapee from a bad video game. The whole production looked exceptionally green-screeny and cheap. I mean, hey - more accurate dinosaurs are a great step forward (despite the unnecessarily colorful feather palette) but for…

My dream is that we can reach a point in the near future where graphics have become so spectacular, and amazing graphics so commonplace and (relatively) inexpensive, that people stop caring so blasted much about graphics and dpi and framerates and all those distractions and start focusing on story. While this demo is…

What's that supposed to mean? I'm not making any value judgements - some people have more free time, some have less. Some have more time for gaming, others don't. I can't imagine why you'd take that as some sort of self-aggrandizement.

I remember being in high school, being done with school, after-school stuff, and homework, and it's only 5:00 and I've got all night and nothing to do but play. I logged hundreds of hours into FF6, Baldur's Gate, Warcraft, Starcraft, Fallout 2, Arcanum, Diablo...

I would love to see an article where an expert actually explains the specific work that goes into preparing games for specific systems. Because the PR guys always use the complexity of porting to different systems as an excuse for why things aren't happening (frequently with regards to bringing console stuff to PC)…

Glad to bring a laugh. And I know they'll bring more influences in, but come on - this looks SO MUCH like Entourage. All the archetypes are there - the slick important guy (Vince/The Prince), the big brother figure (Johnny Drama/the big guy in the back), the plucky, small, comic relief (Turtle/the blondie up front),…

So this is Final Fantasy: Entourage?

Boy, they are dancing all around releasing FFVI on PC, aren't they? We've got 4, 7, 8... Come on, Square! You know what we want! And please don't send crappy updates - give us the one we actually want!

Total agreement. The face is hideous and the sculpt shockingly underwhelming. Where is the $199 coming from? Material cost? Design cost? Or is that just what the market will bear on something like this? Because it is a ludicrous price point for something this poorly made.

Now, now, gentlemen - they were BOTH horriffic stories best left forgotten. I'll grant that Final Crisis had more metaphor and intellectual noodling around in it, and was very artfully crafted, but in terms of storytelling content they were both garbage.

Excuse me while I resume mourning Almost Human. Another show for the long list of those with one great season and leagues of untapped potential left on the table.

For me, I kind of feel like I'm parting ways with the D&D model. I'm finding myself drawn more and more toward rules-light systems that emphasize player freedom, improvisation, and role-playing as the core of the game rather than stats and 4-page character sheets and 20 rolls for grappling. D&D has always been about…

Thank you for posting such cogent, well thought-out supporting points for 4e. While I wasn't a fan of the way 4e was done, I'm not at all excited about what 5e is doing either, and a lot of it comes down to exactly what you're saying - character progression feels static and boring. Fighters and rogues don't get…

I hope there's an alternative to sit-ups, which are terrible for your back and not actually that great for building abs. Planks are far more efficient and safer, but it's hard to gamify that I guess. Still - should've avoided sit-ups. Bad stuff.

Curiously (or maybe not at all curiously?) I've long noticed that political surveys, particularly when delivered over the phone, have clear biases in their questions. Within just a couple questions asked, I can always tell if this is a Republican or Democrat candidate's survey. I can only guess the intent is to have…

Oh my god, yes. There was a time in the '90s when the Image guys were at a convention and the holofoil Youngblood #1 was going for something like $100, and Rob Liefeld stood on top of the table and started throwing copies into the crowd. That era was nuts.

Well, when your life basically stops mattering to anyone after graduating high school, and no heroes can be older than 14 or so, you have to start something resembling a career at a pretty young age.

Pirates spend many times more on media than people who don't. Their overall spending is offsetting what few losses were made by the initial piracy. There's a lot of evidence that people, when removed of piracy or other free sampling options, simply don't bother with certain products. There is also evidence that some…